what do I do? monte carlo

Still interested in getting others thoughts and measurements on a variety of cars.

I am starting to wonder if a bit of tower sag is really that critical as long as the car still aligns well. Your upper A-arm adjustments are at the bottom of the tower. If your towers are 1/4" narrower than others, that hopefully would mean 1/8" each (could be that just one moved, however). But, 1/8" at the top could translate to less than 1/16" where the A-arms are ... easily taken up with a shim.

So, that would mean that variances would most affect the fit of a solid bar in my mind.

 

if these...shock tower measurments... are an exact on all Mav/Comets...this would be the...only exact measurment...on the whole car...

 

... Excellent point!!!! .... We are probably overthinking this, huh? ...

 

i would think if you are having...sagging shock towers...
either your...strut rod crossmember is twisted, cowl or radiator support has buckled...
all this would have been done by the...upper A-arm.
i think the A-arm would have folded up/down backwards/forwards before it twisted/buckled any one of these.

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i read this in an advertisement for strut tower braces...

"The last thing you want to feel when you're carving the corners is chassis flex."

i think if you "carve" a corner tight enough to flex the towers, what you feel is...seat pucker...

 

Thst's what I been thinking.. too much thinking.. lol

I am NOT getting my inch meter on those lol..
I have slight damage where my right front A arm connects. I may be over worried after all this over thinking. When I removed my fenders the right one sorta poped when I loosened the last bolt. The hood fit good so may be nothing.
The fact that the upper A arm bolts are splined and short tell me that I can not put shims there. The lower ecentric also only adjusts so much. I will get back to these concerns when I get there. I still gotta paint

 

Creating a hatchet seat

 

...another...tid-bit...

"Their tests revealed a surprise, shock towers do not collapse inward. Rather, they spread apart under hard cornering".

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MY concern is due to the fact that I run 50's on front.. I don't know if that affects or strains the towers. I don't do any "hard" cornering or at least I don't plan to.